It is noted that Plaintiff provides no proof other than his own self-serving statements that “Paul Krendler” … is actually Defendant Grady or any of the other Defendants.

We Can Write Whatever We Want, Right?

On March 26, 2014, our good friend the Cabin Boy published a post on his blog Patriot-Ombudsman.com, entitled “Gotta Hand it to Hoge, He Knows How To Drive Traffic.”

He started with the following:

(A PIECE OF CREATIVE FICTION IN LOVING TRIBUTE TO A CERTAIN FELLOW IN WESTMINSTER, MD AS I IMAGINE HIS HOMELIFE.)

What follows that is a typical example of what the Cabin Boy calls “satire.” This is something at which he is so skilled, his efforts at “satirizing” his opponents have gotten him separated from many of the most permissive, most progressive sites on the Web.

Generally, it begins and ends with pointless insults directed at WJJ Hoge III, surrounding more pointless insults and crudity directed at his wife and son in-between.

We need to emphasize that the entire post is “pointless,” and we do indeed have a point in doing so.

Satire can be vulgar, insulting, gross and indeed downright vicious. To be successful satire, though, it must be so while making a point. At this, Cabin Boy failed in spectacular manner.

Because the Cabin Boy is a coward with not a molecule of honor within him, we cannot show the complete and utter pointlessness of his original piece. It has been scrubbed from the website, but as the Cabin Boy is so very fond of saying, good thing we took a screencap, huh?

Now, as most rational people would understand, copying and pasting an entire blog post wholesale (with or without the 100+ attached comments) is a plain and obvious violation of copyright. So, we will not do so here.

What we will do is note that it was this “satirical” post which provided the inspiration to create another blog, dedicated to a single purpose: seeking out the stankiest, most nasty turds on the internet, and polishing them until they shine like brown nuggets of comedy gold.

Said blog is private, viewable by invitation or request/permission only; if you believe that one of your works may be among the stanky, nasty stuff to which we dedicate our special attentions, and you feel you may be offended by our parody of your drain-blockage, we don’t want to hear it. In fact, we cordially invite you, with all possible grace and decorum, to piss right the hell off. Don’t start nuthin’, there won’t be nuthin’.

Having noted the purpose of satire, we also note that parody’s purpose is to take a piece of work and blow it up into gargantuan proportions through humor. Mel Brooks’ parodies of the western, the classic horror, the historical epic and the space opera film genres each stand as cultural touchstones.

Given that one of our first efforts was a parody of the post described above, and given also that the author of said post has today made further efforts not only to insulate himself from his own vast idiocy but also to re-double the size of his already considerable bag’o’doucheness, we took a meeting and decided that sauce for the goose is good for the gander as well.

With that in mind, we now bring to the sunshine of the public eye, reprinted in its entirety and with full permission of its author(s), the following parody of pointlessness, super-sized for your extra enjoyment.

You must be at least THIS MATURE to read further – GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS AHEAD – WARNINGWARNINGWARNING

Gotta Hand It To Bill, He Sure Can Drive Traffic. AWAY.

(A PIECE OF CREATIVE FICTION IN LOVING TRIBUTE TO A CERTAIN FELLOW IN ELKRIDGE, MD AS I IMAGINE HIS HOMELIFE.)

Old and crazy, fat and demented, Bill Schmalfeldt sat at his curbside reject card table, wishing he could rub two dimes together and find an old desk at a yard sale. But who would help him haul it home? Gail? She was rarely home anymore. She spent her nights wandering the streets of Elkridge, desperate to get out of the house, out from under his hateful eye. Away from the unrelenting stink of old diapers and sweating feet. She spent the days sleeping off the nights. With the dogs. He stared at a blank page, considering his next post.

“Hhhhhhhhhhhoge,” he murmured, through clenched teeth. From under Gail’s bed, one of the dogs whimpered in fear. He looked to his trophy shelf, to his coveted journalism awards – the five Iowa Hawkeye Newshawk trophies, the sought-after Wisconsin Smell Our Dairy Air award for local news coverage and the Nebraska Farm Bureau Go Shuck Yourself Prize for Outstanding Local News Reporting, North Platte Area.

Bill remembered those happy days, and dropped his face to his hands, sobbing.

“What’s happened to me? God damn it, I’m relevant. Relevant!” He shook a fist at the ceiling, splattering mayonnaise on his monitor.

He absently wiped the stain from his monitor and licked the creamy goo off his finger. He liked creamy, gooey things. For no particular reason, he thought of his lost brother Bob.

Oh, God, Bob, he thought, still sucking his finger clean. I miss you so.

He sat back and closed his eyes, remembering fondly the many years of sharing a bedroom with the Bobber. The playful teasing and wrestling that almost always ended up with grunts and moans, communicating brotherly love in the special language that only identical twins knew.

His bittersweet reverie shattered at the BANG! of the trailer door swinging open. Bill jerked upright, shrinking from the noise. He always shrunk from the noise these days; he knew that soon, Hoge would send one of his demonic lickspittles to dispatch him. Someday, that door would open and he’d see the last face of his life. He wondered whose face it will be.

“Will you ever get away from that GODDAMN COMPUTER?” his wife screeched. She was blitzed. Again. He looked at the clock above the television. It was only 10:30 in the morning. Christ.

He looked at her sideways, avoiding eye contact. She was wearing a long Army surplus winter coat, so he couldn’t tell if she lost another skirt last night. In her right hand she held a nearly empty fifth of bourbon. Always with the bourbon. She had apparently lost her right shoe. The left one, a utilitarian tan orthopedic number, had something wrapped around the ankle, hanging to the floor. Pink granny panties. Sexy.

“Blast you, woman!” he grumbled. “I’ll do the writing. You do the drinking. Understood?”

She responded with a derisive laugh and a healthy, wet fart. He hoped it was a fart, anyway. Sometimes he couldn’t be sure if he was hearing the right orifice. The awards on the trophy shelf rattled and for a moment Bill feared some might fall from the cheap particle-board shelf his son gave him on his fiftieth birthday. Some great milestone day that was. He wonders when the last time Peter even thought about him was.

Gail slammed the door and shambled back to the bedroom like a flatulent zombie. She would probably pass out without getting undressed. He hoped she didn’t piss the bed again and force another costly trip to Goodwill. He desperately wished this shitty little shack had a second bedroom he could move into. But no, they couldn’t afford more than this single-wide on his paltry disability payments and government pension.

He looked at his combined blog output for the past week. Another week with nothing in the PayPal account. I must be deluded, he thought. Nobody listens to my radio station. Nobody but lickspittles and my own pathetic sockpuppets ever comment at Patriot-Ombudsman.

Again, he wondered at his fall to this little hellhole. He used to be somebody. He looked again at his trophy shelf, surrounded by the pictures of himself with celebrity visitors. He was a regional radio GOD once. He had even had an agent. Commercial endorsements. Now it was all gone.

Damn that Hoge! Lousy quantum mechanic. Bill couldn’t even get out of his chair, and Hoge? Hoge had a job! Someone came and begged him to come out of retirement for a real, paying job! Why wasn’t anybody banging down Bill’s door, looking for writers? He knew all there was to know about writing, about journalism, about ethics. He knew how to get sources to give up the goods. He could find people. He could make them talk. There must be somebody out there who needed his skills. Why weren’t the offers pouring in? Why wasn’t he swimming in money and ass-kissing cronies like Hoge?

For no particular reason, he thought of Bobber again. And Brett. And Neal. Brett and Neal. And Bob. Neal and Bob. Neal and Bob…

When he looked up at the clock again, twenty minutes had passed. How had that happened? He pulled his finger out of his mouth again. He couldn’t remember putting it in. Dementia? It was all pruned up. There was no mayonnaise.

He set his mind back to work on the blog. Hoge…lickspittles…that drunk rat-faced Stacy McCain…Ali Akbar…that Twitchy bitch…

But always it came back to Hoge. Hoge and his army of LICKSPITTLES. LICK. SPIT. TLES.

Bill wanted his own army. The Soldiers of Schmalfeldt, he’d call them. The Elkridge Raiders, maybe. Good names, if only he could attract readers like Hoge. But he had nothing.

Hoge had sixteen faithful friends. Probably more in the real world. And a good lawyer. Bill knew that the real world didn’t matter. The real world didn’t matter because it was inflexible. He could not bend it to his will. The real world did not attend his every word the way Mark in MD did, and Obewon. Matthew Lillefelt and Bill Matthews. His Four Horsemen. Hoge’s Apocalypse. So there was that. And they attended his every word, like true disciples.

They would kill if he ordered them to. And it might come to that. He would turn them on Kiernan the felon, or on Palatine Pundit the self-professed sociopath nut case, if it ever came to that. Because in his world, the world of the Soldiers of Schmalfeldt, he was the eternal king, omnipotent and invincible. All else existed to serve at his pleasure, or to be destroyed.

Bill Schmalfeldt knew he had epic prophecy to deliver. He knew he had wisdom to impart. The problem was, his horsemen were incapable of absorbing wisdom. It was like trying to communicate with shadows of himself. He had their love. Their complete devotion and everlasting allegiance. But he knew he also had something even more valuable.

He owned their hate. All he needed do is start a thread about the Evil One Hoge, or any of his Team Lickspittle, and his own shadow ninjas would fall into line and do the work that Bill had neither the patience nor the belly to do for himself.

Not that he didn’t try. Jesus. Bill dropped his harassment hammer 366 times before Carroll County made him stop. And just in time, too. The make-believe world stressed him out and affected his ability to type. Make-believe harassment charges made him sick even in his real world with his Horsemen.

“Will you PLEASE shut the HELL up about your IMAGINARY FRIENDS!! I’m trying to sleep back here!” Gail had stuck her freakishly large head out into the hall. Bill realized he’d been talking to the Horsemen out loud again. It must be the Parkinson’s, because he KNEW he wasn’t crazy. The Horsemen would take care of anyone who said so.

“Shut up, you besotted trollop. And if you leak on my bed again, I swear I’ll–”

“You’ll what? Chase me down in your little rolly chair and beat me up? I’d like to see you try!”

Cackling, Gail slammed the bedroom door. Bill looked with fresh worry at his trophy shelf. What would he do if his legacy were destroyed?

The Schmalfeldt legacy. The proud history of Sippe Schmalfeldt would end soon. Here, now, in a dilapidated Maryland trailer park. His children, Matthew, Peter and Kendra, had disowned him long ago; and Kendra hated Peter almost as much as she hated her father. He knew he would never live to see grandchildren. He sighed, resigned to his ultimate fate. He would die soon. And Gail would sweep his trophies into the garbage before his body cooled.

“Never mind, never mind,” he grumbled to himself. “Must think, Must think.”

Fifteen minutes of grunting and straining later, it dawned on him, a thousand-watt bulb with no shade, glaring in the dark cavern of his brain.

“What I need to do is incite some death threats against myself.”

Behind him, he heard the bedroom door open. He turned and saw Gail, still in her coat, shuffling quickly into the bathroom. “Bluuuuuh…” His wife hurled eighteen hours worth of bourbon, pork rinds and something else into the big white confessional. The aroma, mixed with the stale urine and feet, nearly drove Bill to retch onto his only remaining link to the outside world – the broken down laptop on the card table. Instead he spun quickly to his left and managed to hit the waste basket with the sick. He looked up and saw his wife on the way back to the bedroom. She looked at him with contempt. She used to be pretty, but the bitterness of being with Bill had turned her hard, like petrified wood.

Grady. He will pay for Hoge’s crimes. I know Grady, the sociopath, knows more about the nefarious evil of Hoge than he lets on. If I squeeze that zit, it will pop. Bill realized, too late, that he just squeezed a zit on his own forehead. He looked at his fingers. Pus clung to his finger and thumb like mayonnaise. Mmmm…mayonnaise. Smooth and creamy and gooey.

For no particular reason, he thought of Bobber. His finger slipped into his mouth again. He barely noticed the taste of pus. He was remembering a pleasantly vile yet familiar smell from his childhood. But why was it mixed with pork rinds and bourbon? And feet?

“A hot dog,” he said. “First a footlong hot dog with mayonnaise. Then the blog.”

All he needed to do was offer a simple, not-particularly-inflammatory blog post about Hoge. It didn’t need to be inflammatory at all, in fact. The lickspittles would head to Twitter to insult and deride and call him crazy. He didn’t care; the Horsemen would take care of that later. Bill would be his jolly, jovial self, and they would hate it so much! Brilliant! Eventually Palatine Pundit would chip in, say something he could twist into a bogus death threat. He always did. Or maybe Kyle the felon would threaten to call himself up and tell himself all about Bill. It was their tweets that were defamatory, not his. It was THEIR comments that were batshit crazy, not his, he gloated. “THEY’RE THE ONES WHO ARE CRAZY, NOT ME!!” he crowed triumphantly as he rolled into the kitchen on the desk chair.

“WILL YOU SHUT YOUR GODDAMN CHOMP HOLE?!?!?” roared the voice of his wife from behind the bedroom door.

“I’m not crazy,” Bill repeated. He opened the refrigerator, reached for the open jar of mayonnaise. The smell nearly knocked him from his chair. He rolled to the curtained off cubby they called a pantry and found no fresh jar.

He glared with baleful contempt in his eyes at the last of only three women he had ever touched, none of whom would ever touch him again.

For no particular reason, he thought about his twin brother once more.

He rolled back to the computer, hungry now for the lost days when he and Bobber would sit on the floor together, sucking down footlongs with mayonnaise. He typed a paragraph about Hoge. The writing was nothing to write home over, but it was relatively benign. He typed a few more words, adding a little spice to the post. Fifteen minutes later, he came up for air having blown seventy-five words into over five hundred words of spit, bile and projectile vomit onto the page. A wave of fresh hate washed over him, and he clenched his whole body to absorb its full power.

He hit the POST button, and felt that old familiar sensation of a job well done.

“DAMN IT STRAIGHT TO JESUS!” he hollered as the fresh, deep, earthy stench hit him, and he realized he would have to wake Gail to change his Depends again.

6 thoughts on “We Can Write Whatever We Want, Right?”

Paul-
Its funny. Really, its inspired. That being said, remember- Bill Schmalfeldt is truly crazy, and its getting worse. I don't think it has much to do with his Parkinson's- I think he's just nuts. And its not just the typical lefty blogger crazy, either- this guy is hearing a drummer that nobody else can, and he's marching obediently.
And I agree that he's a nasty bit of work- he's got, like, a decade of meanness documented on the interwebz. But its crazy verbal abuse, and not much else (the Stranahan episode was way beyond, but again- just words.) BS is not a malignant turd like BK, who takes IRL steps to make people miserable- he's just a vicious babbler.
I almost posted something really mean about BS at Hoge's place the other day, and I almost wrote something cleverly cruel on Amazon attached to one of his "books." It would have made me feel satisfied, and I would have been pretty happy with the feedback I would have certainly got. But I never hit "post." At some point, kicking the retard is just mean.
Hoge has every right to avail himself of the courts and law enforcement, and he should defend his copyrights and court orders protecting him vigilantly. Honestly, having Schmalfeldt's bad behavior dealt with by legit process is the way things are supposed to work, and it serves as a warning to others. Hoge is really doing God's work standing up for himself and refusing to shut up. There are many of BK's minions, no doubt, who are taking notice and thinking twice about the incessant online warfare they engage in based on Walker and Hoge's brave and competent defense against the incessant harassment.
I don't know if you are a religious person. I am. It seems to me that participating in continued mockery can cross the line from righteous defense against a bully to simply repaying mean with mean, at some point.
I'm not calling you out and demanding you take anything down. If you feel your (very funny) blog post was justified, than leave it up. Just take a minute to check your values before you hit "post."
My 2 cents.

NSDA - Besides what he's done to Lee Stranahan and his family, he's also tried to get people fired by calling their employers. If all he did was bloviate online, most folks could ignore him, but he's gone way beyond that too many times.

Not to mention posting libelous statements about people in places where a search by an employer, a potential employer, a co-worker, neighbor, etc., just might find it, and react without finding out the whole story first.